Married prison teacher jailed over sexting fling with an inmate after her husband found x-rated selfies on her phone

Jennifer Forshaw, 28, started up a steamy eight-month relationship with lag Ian Howard after he joined her English class

By Holly Christodoulou

21st July 2017, 5:00 pm

Updated: 21st July 2017, 5:00 pm

A MARRIED prison teacher whose sexting affair with an inmate was rumbled after her husband discovered x-rated selfies on her phone wept as she was jailed today.

Jennifer Forshaw, 28, started up a steamy eight-month relationship with lag Ian Howard after he joined her English class.

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Prison teacher Jennifer Forshaw had a sexting affair with a lag

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The married mum's affair was rumbled by her estranged husband John

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Forshaw has now been jailed for 21 months

But the mum-of-two's illicit texting affair was discovered when her estranged husband Jonathan, also 28, spotted one of the photos on her mobile.

He also saw various text messages Forshaw had sent to Howard - as well as a romantic card she had written to her prison lover.

A row erupted and fuming Mr Forshaw stormed over to Category C Wymott Jail in Leyland, Lancs where his wife worked.

He told a security guard and Forshaw, who has two children aged two and four, was later arrested at work.

Forshaw has now been caged for 21 months after admitting misconduct in a pubic office between December 2015 and June 2016.

The court heard how during one 18 day period, she and Howard had swapped 200 text messages after he illegally acquired a mobile phone in jail and they had secret phone chats - one lasting up to an hour.

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Forshaw swapped 200 messages with her lover

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She met lag Ian Howard at Wymott Jail in Leyland, Lancs

Packaging for a sim card seized from Howard's cell was later discovered in Forshaw's bedroom. She admitted a relationship but denied any ''physical liaisons.''

Sentencing, Judge Ian Leeming QC told her: "You grossly breached the trust placed in you by becoming heavily involved romantically with an inmate at the prison. You sent him a very large number of texts and calls by phone which he received in prison. You took self photographs, some of them in your underwear. You had some photographs printed.

"Some photographs actually went to him, you sent him cards, some of this material was found by your estranged husband at home as were text messages when he looked at your phone without your permission. At one stage you were warned by staff, you seemed to be ignoring or coming very close to the boundaries of staff and prisoner which you paid no attention it would seem.

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"You topped up the phone for the man concerned and he held a phone in custody illicitly, you took him the SIM.

"Your remorse is entirely genuine but I'm afraid at the end of the day I take the view I cannot suspend sentence for offences such as these, it gives me no pleasure to come to that conclusion."

Robert Dudley prosecuting said the relationship began in December 2015 after Howard was transferred to the 1,276 inmate jail the previous month.

The tryst was rumbled after Forshaw was confronted by her estranged husband when he saw the images on her mobile.

The day after she was interviewed about the affair, she went to Tesco and bought a separate mobile she could use to carry on messaging her lover.

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Forshaw's husband found about the affair after seeing photos on her phone

Mr Dudley said: "It was a few weeks later on June 25 she opened an account on website, Email a Prisoner, and continued to send messages to him through that as well as text messages, letters, notes and cards. Those continued for some time through to at least August 2.

''She was re-arrested on August 5 last year, various letters, birthday cards, telephones and the like were identified, plenty of communication of an intimate nature between her and her prisoner. His cell was searched and there was letters, cards, photographs found in his cell. This was misconduct that went on over a number of months."

A prison officer at Wymott Emma Blake, 28, had been accused of turning a blind eye to the affair but misconduct charges against her were dropped at an earlier hearing.